Youth Work Recognition through Self-Assessment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth Work Recognition through Self-Assessment

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project is set around the trend of youth work recognition, which is enhanced both on European and national, level. The idea of youth work recognition often can be seen as a two-fold process: on one hand directed to the youth work providers aiming to make their work effective and to provide space for real and meaningful support for young people, while on the other hand ensuring that youth workers are competent for the job. The project is coordinated by CEREBRA BiH, with partners from Belgium (Youth for Exchange and Understanding) and North Macedonia (Center for Intercultural Dialogue)The project’s main aim is to strengthen the recognition of youth workers competences and assessment of the quality of youth work providers, by capacity building of youth workers and evaluators based on the principle of self-assessment and peer-assessment. Objectives of the project are the following: – To build capacities of youth workers to be able to provide peer-review of their work and self-assess their competences within a given competence framework for youth workers (portfolio) – To raise awareness on the need to develop learning to learn competences within youth work and motivate youth workers for lifelong learning- To develop and try out specific recognition tools for youth work providers (quality label tools) and for youth workers (recognition portfolios) as examples of non-formality in the recognition of youth work- To develop participants’ understanding and knowledge of various forms of youth work systems and discuss their applicability in different contexts- To exchange good practices of youth work recognition between youth workers and their associations from the 3 participating countries but also on European level Key project activities include:Training course on assessment of youth workers competences: It aims to build capacity of youth workers and decision makers in the youth field about the need for quality assessment and provide ideas of assessments.Creating tools for assessment of youth work providers and self-assessment and peer-review of youth workers. Youth Work material – overview of tools and practices of youth work recognition and assessment of youth workers Study visit on youth work recognition in Belgium in order to share examples of peer-reviews in youth workDissemination workshop for national youth work recognition will be held in Belgium, BiH and Macedonia andSeminar “Assessing the assessment – where next?” which aims to provide an overview of the process and to draw conclusions related to recognition tools developed by the project and their applicability in youth work and beyond.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 52938,95 Eur

Project Coordinator

AGENCIJA ZA RAZVOJ I SARADNJU CEREBRA & Country: BA

Project Partners

• YOUTH FOR EXCHANGE AND UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL AISBL
• CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE ASSOCIATION